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A 23-year-old man was shot and killed near a Livingston Avenue intersection early this morning
on the East Side after a confrontation at an after-hours bar.

Police say Paul Davis, whose address was not immediately known, was shot and killed in a vehicle
that was stopped at the intersection of Colby Avenue and Beechwood Road, just off Livingston Avenue
just after 4 a.m.

The shooting happened near the Klub 57 after-hours bar but police said today that Davis was not
a customer there but instead had been at the Moonlight after-hours bar just around the corner at
3836 E. Livingston Ave.

Police said Davis had a confrontation with a security guard at Moonlight and then he fled the
scene and was known to be armed with a gun. Other security officers followed Davis, homicide
detectives said.

Davis then pulled his gun and issued a threat; one of the security officers shot him. Columbus
paramedics pronounced Davis dead at the scene at 4:10 a.m. A handgun was recovered at the scene,
police said.

Police did not release the names of any of the security guards, including the one who shot
Davis.

There’s been other trouble in the same neighborhood.

There was a murder in the parking lot of Klub 57 in August of 2012. Five people were leaving the
bar about 2 a.m. when they were robbed. One of the men in the group, 40-year-old Jerome L.
Crockett,
was
fatally shot in the chest.

Last month, a Franklin County Common Pleas court jury
convicted Derrick Peeples, 37, in that murder. He is due to be sentenced on Nov.
13.

A man who lives just a few doors down from Klub 57 said this morning there’s a lot of trouble in
the neighborhood but that police do a fairly good job patrolling the area. He did not want to give
his name because he was afraid of retaliation.